So I got all three sets of terraclips in today. And started working on my first build.

Initial Observations. The box the clips come in was way bigger then I expected, and helped to appreciate the packaging difficulties of including them with the cards. I was a little surprised there wasn't a tray or something separating the different clips, but no biggie, I'll pick something up at wally world to store them tomorrow.

The Stairs are awesome, and the few times I noticed a loose stair, flipping it over usually solved the problem.

The Ladders are fiddly, I had real problems with the first one, but after getting out my tiny flat head screw driver to help guide the hooks through the slot. I also found that the little piece in between the rungs works well for loosen up some of the tighter slots on the ladder.

For my first build I'm doing a single story build with the sewers, and I was 4 3'x3' squares shy of covering a 30'x30' area.

I too noticed the gator bump warping issue as Ninevah, but as Denny said this will go away as the tiles are used. I had more issues with my first set of walls all wanting to tilt inward from this. It looked fine and the piece was solid but it caused the second level to not quite sit right on top. Oh also I noticed the more clips I used on a tile the warping wasn't as noticeable.

Also I couldn't quite figure out Denny's trick from the video to get the clips to release easier.

Now all that said I really really like these, and can't wait to run my first game with these.

I like premade terrain alot, I have several several sets of Dwarven forge sitting in storage, but stopped using them due to clean up and set up time. I've also bought at least 4 sets of WotC tiles since they started making them.

Terraclips is like the awesome love child of both. Great looking 3-d terrain that is way more modular then Master Maze could ever truly be. Plus when the PC's duck in the sewers for safety I can just lift up some streets and keep the action going.

I've been salivating over these since I first saw them, but only preordered a 1 set of each, now I'm just hoping some are still left to order when my next payday rolls around.

Ok, so after work and errands I got back to my build, I altered it a little and I'm putting in a second level of sewers with cat walks using the balconies.

Problems so far, Not enough walls to support upper levels, and L clip shortages, but not drastic (so far on the latter)

The double doors, I can't help but wonder if I'm doing something wrong, they always want to fall down. So why are the shorter on one side of the slot, is there something I'm missing.

Not so much a problem as a critique, I didn't notice it so much on the sewers as I did the city but why are all the walls so different from one another, ie the art being significantly different from one wall piece to the next.

Solutions so far,

T-Clips, from now on I plan on using T-clips for all the outside edges of my build, they're like little handles I can use to lift them, and might even use them for multi level building

Sections ie I plan on building mine in sections of 12-18 inches per side so I can remove sections easier.

You'll probably notice I have used a ton of clips in this build, mainly I wanted to see just how many clips you would go through if you did (mainly to see which ones ran out fastest, the I clips by the way already had to open my third box of them, but that is with every place that can take a clip getting one, except between sections) and if it's any more sturdy, and because of the slight warping issues due to the gator bumps.

I bought 1 for each set, and used a ton on the sewers, with streets and building I went more conservative with my clips which also sped up how quick they were to put together. I have had to open all three sets far due to running low on I clips.

My first build is now complete. I had wanted to add a few more floors and more balconies, particularly Along the upper street an outside the arch ways in the alley, but I ran out of clips. I only had 1 T clip left, but that is with clipping every available slot on the sewers. Here are the pics.

Very nice, man! I'm happy to see that just 1 box of each set will build that much. It looks like you could have put in even more for the buildings 'cuz I know I was amazed how much was included in that box.

Also added were pictures of each section, like I said in my last post, next time I won't concentrate on getting walls at the edges of these, although perpendicular to the edge would work great.

For giggles and to illustrate the sturdiness of the sections I stacked all the sections up haphazardly and snapped a few shots. The sad thing is I kind of wanted to run a game on it, but it did inspire me on how I might be able to get these to work with my next game in sharn (I had been fretting about not having enough building tiles), but that is a build for another day.

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot post attachments in this forum